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Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon 
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay.
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Obama Embraces Creative Commons
Ben Jones via TorrentFreak on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
US President-Elect Barack Obama is a man with a message, and according to the speeches made during his campaign, that message is ‘Change’. One of those changes has been somewhat of a snub to the creative industries and their lobby groups - the embracing of Creative Commons licensing.
In some ways,
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Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
Heroes is leading the chart again, with over two million downloads for the latest episode only, closely followed by Prison Break. Jack Bauer returns
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Will uTorrent Really Kill the Internet?
Ben Jones via TorrentFreak on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
An inflammatory article published by Richard Bennett in The Register makes the claim ‘BitTorrent will kill the Internet’, or at least VoIP and games. However, are Bennett’s claims based in reality, or is it just another round in the FUD war that envelops the Internet?
A lot of buzz around the
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Sexpert Uncovers Shades of Dahl in Piracy Witch-Hunt
enigmax via TorrentFreak on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
When TorrentFreak broke the news that lawyers had started going after alleged downloaders of gay porn, we knew that this time the anti-piracy dynamic would be different. Named in Forbes’ Web Celeb 25, Violet Blue, a sex columnist and educator has surprisingly added her dissenting voice into the mix, unwittingly highlighting similarities to a story put to paper years ago by writer Roa
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “The Dark Knight” tops the chart for the third week in a row already.
As we reported earlier, The Dark Knight is on its way to become the most pirated mov
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Top 10 BitTorrent and RSS Tips
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
RSS can be a real time saver for BitTorrent enthusiasts. Rather than manually trawling many torrent sites hunting for material, most will agree it’s much more convenient for the content to come to the user. This is exactly what you can achieve by using RSS and these ten handy tips.
For th
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Anti-Piracy Lobby Defeats European Democracy
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
An amendment designed to protect Internet users from the anti-piracy lobby has been rejected by President Sarkozy of the European Council. The rejection goes against the will of the European Parliament, where 88% of the members already voted in favor of the amendment, which was originally destined to protect file-sharers from Internet disconnection under the ‘3 strikes’ framework.
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Orange: Our Customers Can Now Access The Pirate Bay
enigmax via TorrentFreak on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
A week ago today, customers of the ISP Orange across the UK and France found that they could no longer access The Pirate Bay. Many of them fired off emails to the service provider, worried that Orange was censoring their access to the Internet. Now, a week later, Orange have answered officially - its customers should have no further difficulty accessing the world’s largest tracker.
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Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
After Atari received some bad press recently for mistakenly accusing an elderly couple of pirating one of its games, the company has now stopped the anti-piracy campaign in question. The “witch-hunt”, carried out by the UK law firm Davenport Lyons on behalf of Atari, based on spreadsheets full of IPs gathered by a company named Logistep, continues to lose credibility.
For regular rea
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uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Until today, uTorrent - the client of choice for most BitTorrent users - was only available on Windows PCs. Now, after years of waiting, Mac users finally have the chance to try uTorrent, to see for themselves how it fares against the competition.
uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in Septemb
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The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today, roughly 5 years after this historic day, the founders of the site are celebrities in Sweden, and rockstars on the Internet.
The Pirate Bay its roots lead us back to Piratb
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Search and Download Torrents from your iPhone
(unknown author) via TorrentFreak on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
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The iPhone is a superb gadget and of course, we all know that BitTorrent is a very special tool, so why not combine the two? With the uTorrent WebAPP for iPhone you can monitor, search and add torrents to your PC client wherever you are, making handling torrents on the move easier than ever before.
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Recording Industry Negotiates With BitTorrent and NZB Sites
enigmax via TorrentFreak on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Earlier in November, South Africa’s recording industry body RiSA took action against the country’s largest BitTorrent and NZB sites. BitFarm and Newshost looked to be in peril but a lawyer experienced in dealing with RiSA stepped up to help them. Now it appears that a negotiated settlement could be on the horizon.
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “The Dark Knight” tops the chart for the second week in a row, followed by “Tropic Thunder”.
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Adwords for P2P, Advertising Opportunity or Spamming Tool?
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
This year, several companies launched advertising programs targeted at the millions of users of Limewire and other Gnutella or eD2k based filesharing applications. The boundary between advertisement and plain old spam is completely disappearing, especially with the recently launched service ‘PeerMatrix’.
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MPAA ‘Castrates’ World’s Biggest FanEdit Movie Site
enigmax via TorrentFreak on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
Fanedits are fan-created versions of officially available movies. Fans spend huge amounts of time with sophisticated software to add, cut or alter scenes to improve the original or simply create different versions of a movie. Fanedit.org is the largest such community in the world and the MPAA has, in the words of the admin, just ‘castrated’ the site.
Faneditors consider what they do
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Google Powered BitTorrent Seach Engines
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
Running a BitTorrent site can be quite costly. Most of the larger sites need over a dozen servers to keep everything running smoothly. There are some scalable alternatives for BitTorrent startups though. Two relatively unknown meta-search engines have taken a different route by using Google’s App Engine, which provides optimal scalability, for free.
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The Inside Story of the TV-Links Bust
enigmax via TorrentFreak on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
In October 2007, while most tech media attention was focused on the OiNK raid, another large site got police attention. TV-Links, which linked to videos on YouTube-like sites was raided and shutdown, with the admin arrested. A year later, we catch up with the ex-admin of TV-Links for the entire story.
When it became apparent that TV-Links.c
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How to Make the Best Torrents
Ben Jones via TorrentFreak on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Making a torrent properly is one of the most overlooked aspects in torrenting. Most users of bittorrent only create the .torrent files occasionally, if at all, and others make bad choices and mistakes, which can antagonise people, or make torrents slow to propagate, and lead to an early death.
In the past, we’ve covered how to
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